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JAN 28 IJI6 





Liberty and Lincoln 


Thou fortress of freedom! Columbia, blest country! 
From tbe heights of tbe present, the structure we scan; 
In rapture, behold the sublime architecture, 

And trace the Grand Master who ordered the plan. 


Deep cut in thy walls and entwined with their laurels, 
Are the names of the heroes who the stronghold have made, 
Who, from out the vast forests and rock-guarded gateways, 
Hewed the bowlders on which the foundation was laid. 


Massive bowlders they were—of man’s rights and man’s 
freedom; 

God guided the chisel that Liberty held, 

To carve out for Himself this Temple of Freedom— 

His name with this country forever to weld. 



On an arm of God’s ocean, the corner-stone rested, 

Held up to the world, for all people to see 
That out of foul bondage and soul persecution 
A nation had sprung; Blessed land of the free! 

And patriots came forth, fed from Liberty’s fountain, 

The free air pulsed freedom from Tyranny’s rod, 

The bells from the steeples ran& Liberty! Liberty! 
Defend your own conscience and worship but God. 

And the world cau&ht the echo and leaned forth to listen, 
And, straining her eyes, the fair temple to see, 

Beheld o’er her battlements Freedom’s own emblem, 

The Star-spangled-banner, the fla& of the free! 

But a spoiler crept in, demon led, poison freighted, 

To mar—break asunder one column so fair; 

Humanity slumbered, while avarice conquered 
And pinioned an arm of fair Liberty there. 


Africa’s sons, of our own God the children, 

Brought in bondage and chained beneath Liberty’s tree 
By the sons of our free men, robbed of home and of country, 
Slaves, bought and sold in the land of the free! 

The fair Goddess wept, God frowned on His people, 
Mournfully fluttered the folds of the flag; 

Its stars lost their lustre, dimmed was their &lory 
By the tears of the bondman that made it a ra£! 

But the same God who sent to a chained world a Savior, 
From amon& His earth’s children a likeness He called; 
When, Lo, from the background, in Right’s armor girded, 
Came a self-pledged redeemer for his brother enthralled. 

Abraham Lincoln, true hero! Blessed martyr! 

His soul heard the call, when the Nation’s God spoke, 

His pen faltered not, in that &reat proclamation, 

Though he knew with his life-blood the mandate he wrote. 


Steadfastly holding, the scroll to the people— 

His face to the stars of the fla& and on hi&h, 

Made answer: “My Father, I hear Thee, obey Thee, 

For Thee and for country I live, or I die.” 

The coward crept backward, the traitor upbraided, 

But firm stood brave Lincoln, his bosom laid bare, 

The target for malice and da££er and bullet, 

Still, with steel-tempered manhood, to do and to dare. 

Oh, flame of a true heart! It kindled the embers 
That slumbering lay in the heart of each son 
That still loved fair Freedom. From town and from hamlet 
Thousands came forth, who, in spirit, were one. 

And Liberty triumphed. Broke were her shackles, 

Free to the g,lad winds her loved banner flun&; 
Resplendent in &lory shone the full constellation, 

Hilltop and valley with the blest anthem run&. 


Yet in &rief wept the nation; for he who led forward 
The slave out of bondage, in death was laid low; 

At the door of his triumph, base Treason ensnared him, 
And foul traitor hands struck the murderous blow. 

Slain was the chieftain. Paid was the ransom 
He offered, when pled&in& the Union to save. 

His blood stains the earth; but his soul sped to Heaven, 
On the win&s of the shouts that went up from the slaves. 

True type of the free soul! A nation yet mourns thee, 
Thy name still it blesses, thy memory loves. 

In the li&ht of thy life may the people awaken 
To hold all the rights which true liberty proves. 

Priceless &em of our nation, our freedom, God keep thee! 
Still send us Lincolns all, all chains to sever. 

Keep our free institutions unspotted, we pray thee. 

And the fla& of our Union forever and ever. 


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